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    Sadly true, not that I condone anyone destroying someone else's property. It would be more logical to simply ban phone use in class. Teachers really don't get paid well enough to deal with some of the disruptions that can go on in classrooms. Good teaching is enough of a challenge all by itself.
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    And of course sometimes the students really are trolling, just to see if they can derail the class discussion. An AI instructor would take all the fun out of trolling, so maybe not a bad idea. All in all, though, I think that AI instruction at this point may be OK for rote learning of facts but not much good for anything that requires deep individual thinking. Who knows what it may become in another 30 years?
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    form fitting
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    This has been true for a very long time. It would be rare to write a grant application in the sciences and not include a budget for paying page charges. Academic publishing comes at a cost that is spread among the learned societies, granting agencies, academic institutions, and individual researchers, each of whom has an interest in supporting research. There have always been arguments about how much of the total should fall on each of those parties, but all understand the game. I can only recall one or two times that I have published an article without paying some of the cost either out of grant funds or my own pocket.
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    "Often" depends on who's counting and how cynical they are, I imagine. "Sometimes" might be more accurate.
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    Creating a partnership costs each partner L$10. The person who initiates a "divorce" is charged L$25.
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    J.C. Bach: Sonata No. 5 in A Major, Op. 17, No. 5 - I. Allegro
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    Friedrich Gulda • Gulda and his Big Bands
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    Friedrich Gulda & Claudio Abbado - Mozart: Piano Concerto K488
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    Most of your if statements should be else if .... As it is, they are mostly being ignored.
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    Me too. I can nurse a 20 oz mug of coffee for a few hours and still have comfortably warm coffee in it. Coffee is a lot more forgiving than tea, though. I'm not sure that its flavor wouldn't degrade.
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    Oh, you're concerned about this test? If you are hoping to detect hits that are not on the torso, then what you want is more like if (hitPos.y>=((hitPos.y >= theirPos.y-(0.1*sizeY)) || hitPos.y>=(theirPos.y+(0.1*sizeY))) assuming that the torso is centered on the bounding box and is only 20% of its total width.
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    Where you're going wrong is that arms might be anywhere from the extreme left side of the bounding box to the extreme right side, including right in the middle. You won't be able to distinguish between a hit on an arm and a hit on the torso, and you won't even be able to tell the right arm from the left arm, since it's hard to get the av's rotation reliably. Your vertical method works pretty well because the torso's a big target and your Z slices can distinguish fairly reliably between a hit on the head and one in the stomach.
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    It's just you. Link a couple of prims together and drop this script in them: default { touch_start(integer total_number) { llSay(0, "Touched link #" + (string)llDetectedLinkNumber(0)); } } The script should detect a click on either prim correctly. It does for me.
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    I'm not surprised that you have fair success with shots on the torso, but it's going to be harder to target left and right. avSize.y is the Y dimension of the av's bounding box, but the arms could be anywhere inside that. Depending on the anim, your target's arms might be stretched out or folded in, or anywhere in between, but the cast ray will simply report that it hit the bounding box.
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    Saki's stories were often like that. He was basically a satirist, making fun of all sorts of societal customs of his day, so a lot of his plots had endings that were counterintuitive. My dad, for whatever quirky reason, loved them. I remember reading them myself when I was young.
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    Access issue

    Rolig Loon replied to Chris Barth's question in Land

    Ah.... no. Estate can't be missing. All land anywhere in SL is part of an estate. Look under the WORLD menu at the top of your screen. If you're in the standard viewer, select the Region/Estate option. In Firestorm it's called Region Details. That will show you the screen I showed in my last post.
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    Anyone related to me just smiles politely when I mention SL, which is just as well. This is my escape hatch, where I can relax and do weird things with total strangers and a few select friends who may be imaginary for all I know.
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    horse avatar

    Rolig Loon replied to adamsm184675's question in Avatar

    Welcome to the forums! There's no really good place for a suggestion like this in the forums, sadly. If you'd like to get someone to create a horse for you, you might try posting in the InWorld Employment forum. If you want suggestions about where to look for a horse that you haven't found already, maybe the Wanted forum is right. Otherwise, the Creation forums don't work because those are for creators exchanging ideas or moaning to each other about things that don't work. And this Answers section isn't going to work either because it's for asking how SL works (or why it doesn't). I'm not sure what to suggest except maybe try contacting some of the current mesh designers directly with a personal message. There are some very talented creators out there. Good luck.
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    Access issue

    Rolig Loon replied to Chris Barth's question in Land

    Stand in your parcel and open About Land >>> Access: If that top box is UNchecked, check it. Leave the other two boxes UNchecked, as I have. If your About Land display looks like mine already, then have a look at the Region/Estate settings: You can't do anything about these unless you happen to own the whole estate or region, but your display should look like mine, at least to the extent of having that first button UNselected so that residents don't need to be on the estate's Access list. If the Anyone Can Visit button is selected, but the 18+ box or the Payment Info box are checked, then that will explain why some of your friends can't enter.
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    Take a look at
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    Probably maddening for them too. Learning a new language is hard enough. Trying to manage a low-level job at the same time must be a real challenge.
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    Quite so, and that was my point. As you say, most of us design our person space to satisfy ourselves. Those who create spaces to attract visitors -- merchants, galleries, clubs owners ... -- do shoot themselves in the foot if they don't pay attention to LODs, so they truly do lose if I and others vanish after a quick look. People who aren't trying to attract visitors, though, are welcome to do what they wish.
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    llRegionSayTo only works within the current region
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    Well, it's usually wise to test your creations to be sure that they will look right on each of the common viewers. If there's any possibility that whatever you are creating might look different for some customers, it's nice to find that out before you go public. Not really an answer, but .....
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